HOUSE PLANS AND SPECIFICATIONS 
In long houses, every third or fourth partition 
should be boarded up entirely to the roof in order 
to prevent drafts from sweeping through the length 
of the house. 
The gates, or doors, through which the attend- 
ant passes from one pen to another, are placed 
toward the front of the partitions, so that they 
close against the studding in the front wall of the 
house. The gates are hung to a 2x 4-inch scant- 
ling which is placed in each partition three feet 
back in the house from the front wall. This makes 
all the gates come on a line with the outside door, 
which in all three houses is situated in the end wall, 
as shown in the illustration of House No. 1. There 
are no openings of any kind in the rear wall and the 
one end wall. 
The bottom board of the inside partition runs 
the entire width of the house, and so, on this, the 
gate is set ten or twelve inches above the floor. 
Two boards of similar width are used to make the 
lower part of the gate solid and in keeping with 
the remainder of the partition. The upper body 
of the gate may be covered with any convenient 
netting or fencing. The 2x 4 scantling previously 
mentioned is also useful for fastening the other 
boards and the wire used in the construction of the 
partition. 
The hen holes in the front wall are 12x 16 
inches, being small hinged doors which may be 
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